University of Warsaw

English abstract: Combating totalitarian propaganda is a topic that continues to challenge the law, including criminal law dogmatics. The criminalization of totalitarian propaganda plays a special role in countries which have been affected by these regimes. Polish law currently criminalizes the propagation of communist ideology. It is worth presenting how this concept was shaped against the historical background of the regulations in force in the Second Republic of Poland. The article addresses the issue of criminalization of communist propaganda in the Second Republic of Poland. It analyses the rulings of the Supreme Court and scholars’ views concerning this issue from the period 1918–1939.

Keywords: criminalization, communism, propaganda, jurisprudence, Supreme Court

Language: English

Published: Number 3(44)/2025, pp. 107-118.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2025.3.107

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Abstract: In this paper I discuss the apparent similarities between the “literate approach” and the aspiring “visual media approach”. Then, I scrutinize arguments for utility of the second approach. It seems that even though both approaches are founded on similar humanistic considerations, they are nonetheless separate positions; thus the need to justify the application of the second approach independently of the first. As an important task in due course I consider debunking the arguments in support of accusations of the “law and film” movement of being a threat to law and its legitimacy (as related to the “law going pop” argument by Richard K. Sherwin).

Keywords: law and literature, law and film, law and popular culture, narrative, jurisprudence

Language: English

Published: Number 1(26)/2021, s. 21-32.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.1.21

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University of Wrocław

Abstract: The topic of the article is the current crisis of the idea of the apolitical nature of jurisprudence and the relationship between this crisis and the phenomenon of populism. In the first part of the study, the author puts forward a thesis on the post-theological and liberal character of the idea, reconstructing its genealogy. The next part discusses the impact of first-wave populism (1930s and 1940s) on the status of the title idea, focusing primarily on authoritarian – Nazi and Stalinist – populisms. In the next part, the author diagnoses the causes of the current crisis of the title idea after the period of its demo-liberal reappointment.

Keywords: apoliticality, jurisprudence, discourse, populism, crisis, post-theology, liberalism

Language: Polish

Received: 13.06.2018
Accepted: 17.08.2018

Published: Number 3(18)/2018, pp. 74-85.

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University of Wrocław

Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the political character of the interpretation of law and the political nature of the theory of legal interpretation from Stanley Fish’s neo-pragmatist perspective. In the first part of the text, I define the concept of politics and the political, borrowing from Chantal Mouffe. I clearly distinguish between the political, politics, and policy; this article uses the first concept (the political). In the second part of the article, I characterize hermeneutic universalism as one of the approaches to the problem of legal interpretation.

In the third part, following the characteristics of the concepts of interpretive communities as defined by Stanley Fish, I draw conclusions about the political nature of the interpretation of law and the theory of the interpretation of law. In conclusion, I analyse the possibilities of building a theory of legal interpretation that internalises the inherently political character of knowledge by analyzing the concept of post-analytical philosophy proposed in literature by Andrzej Bator.

Keywords: jurisprudence, the political, neopragmatism, interpretive community, hermeneutic universalism, interpretation

Language: Polish

Received: 13.06.2018
Accepted: 13.08.2018

Published: Number 3(18)/2018, pp. 24-37.

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